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DRAFT ATTACHMENT EOE VEHICLES. No. 381,183.

Patentedpr. 1*'7, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE., j

' JOHN H. TIFFANY, oF DIMOCK, PFN'NsYLvALNIA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LetterslPatentNo. 381,183, dated April17,1888.'

` Application mea June 1s, naar.

y To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatl, JOHN H. TIFFANY@ citizen of the United States,residing at Dimock, in the county of Susquehanna and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDraftAttachments for Vehicles; andl do'hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make andusethe same. y t V My invention relates to means Afor adjusting A.andbalancing a cart-or other vehicle; and it 'consists in` the combination,withk the body of avehicle and the draft appliances, of an attachmentconnecting the said body to the draft,

so as to raise the front end of the vehicle when too low and-loweritwhen too high and adjust it at the proper position by the draftof the team and tension of the harness.

It is illustratedin the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2are side elevations, and Fig.; 3 a plan.Ln t

I haveiuustrated thisinvennion as @minedw to a class of vehiclesfor.whch I obtained Letters Patent Nos. 297,876 and 308,933, of 1884. Inthe drawings, A represents the top ofthe body or frameiof the vehicle;c, the bottom; B,

YThe top and bottom draft rodsor chains, J"

and K, must be of a proper length, so as to draw on them all at the sametime when the vehicle is adjusted or balanced properly or at the desiredangle with 'the'tongue When the front end of the body is low, as shownin Fig.

2, the draft will be from the bottom rod or chain,which will raise-thefront end ofthe vehicle, and the upper adjusting device will be loose,as shown.` .When the front end of the body is too high, thev draftwillbe from the top,which will lower it. Y.' The tensionvof. the

When rods are used,` pivoted tothe body of the veserial N0.241,1o1. (Nombael.) i

kharness Vupon thetop or'jblottom of the body is the same as the draftof the team, as before explained, and helps to adj ust and kbalanceit'.y

N represents a springof elastic wood,metal, or other material, used tollconvey the weight of the 'thills, f tongue, Hneck-yoke, or other'weight from the team tothe vfront end of the l Y body or frame of thevehicle. The spport orfulcrum'of'the spring should be near the point`where the tongue unites withthe vehicle. i

The spring tongue-support herein vshown yand described is made the,special subjectof f' my application No. 267,830, tiled March 2 0, 1888.

When the frontend ofthe vehicle is low, as f I ,shown inFig. 2, thetonguesupport`-doesnot 1 convey the weight of thetongue, '&c.,tothe .f v

frontend of the vehicle; but about thetilne the vehicle comes to ahorizontal position or at a desirable anglewith the tonguethespringsupport transfers the' weight of the thills or tongue,whiffletrees, harness, `or .other weight carried by the tea-m t o thefront end of the vehicle,which`tends to prevent `the front end of thevehicle from rising -too,high,wherebythe Vehicle is better adjusted atthe desired posi- Y tion. thus to prevent the thills or tongue rising,so

I 'donot confine myself tothe formof springV herein described; but anyform of support that will relieve the weightv of the thills or tongue,

whiffletrees, neck yoke, harness, and other height and will notmaterially interfere with the team when the frontend of the vehicle ishigh will be comprised by my invention.` I y do not wish to Vconnemyself to the draft-rods or chain-adjuster as before described, but toinclude any form of draft-adjuster to draw Another'object ofthefsprin'g-support is i 8O as to interfere with the team when `thefront weight from the team and 'transfer it to 'the l frontend of thevehicle when at the proper 90/ fromk the top kand. bottom thatl willadjust andi' balance the vehicle. Iamlaware that it is old'totongue-supports on wagons; but Il am not aware that a springsupport hasbeen usedywith a cart or other vehicle adjusted and bal,-Y .anced in'manner and by the means herein described. f i

What I claim is i use spring i 1. In combinationwith the body ofavehicle the top and bottom of the body and to the 1o and the draftappliances, an attachment con- Whiietrees, substantially as and for thepursisting of rods, chains, or cords connecting pose described. the saidbody to the draft, whereby the body In testimony whereof I aiixmysgnature 1n 5 is balanced by the tension of the draft upon presence oftwo witnesses.

said attachment, substantially as described. JOHN H. TIFFANY.

2. In combination with a vehicle-body, the Witnesses: t tongue, andelastic tongue-support, the Whif- Jos. H. BLACKWOOD,

fletrees, and the adjusting device attached to vW. G. DOOLITTLE.

